{"id":2752,"date":"2016-01-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/the-lord-said-i-will-surely-return-to-you-about-this-time-next-year-and-sarah-your-wife-shall-have-a-son-genesis-1810-esv\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T00:00:00","slug":"the-lord-said-i-will-surely-return-to-you-about-this-time-next-year-and-sarah-your-wife-shall-have-a-son-genesis-1810-esv","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/the-lord-said-i-will-surely-return-to-you-about-this-time-next-year-and-sarah-your-wife-shall-have-a-son-genesis-1810-esv","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Lord said, \u201cI will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son.\u201d&#8217; (Genesis 18:10 ESV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord&#8217;s visitation to make a birth announcement concerning Abraham&#8217;s wife, Sarah, began a pattern of such divine announcements in the lineage of Christ. Isaac, the child of laughter and of promise, was clearly a miraculous birth. God opened the womb of a woman &#8220;advanced in years,&#8221; one in whom the &#8220;way of women had ceased to be.&#8221; This birth announcement was a foreshadowing of the announcement Gabriel made to Joseph and Mary. For in a similar fashion, God chose the young virgin Mary, and caused her to be with child, also visiting Joseph to call him to accept her and to name the boy child, &#8220;Jesus,&#8221; adopting him as his own. The birth of Isaac points to the birth of Jesus. In fact, the whole Old Testament points to Christ&#8217;s coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord&#8217;s visitation to make a birth announcement concerning Abraham&#8217;s wife, Sarah, began a pattern of such divine announcements in the lineage of Christ. Isaac, the child of laughter and of promise, was clearly a miraculous birth. God opened the womb of a woman &#8220;advanced in years,&#8221; one in whom the &#8220;way of women had ceased to be.&#8221; This birth announcement was a foreshadowing of the announcement Gabriel made to Joseph and Mary. For in a similar fashion, God chose the young virgin Mary, and caused her to be with child, also visiting Joseph to call him to accept her and to name the boy child, &#8220;Jesus,&#8221; adopting him as his own. The birth of Isaac points to the birth of Jesus. In fact, the whole Old Testament points to Christ&#8217;s coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1268],"scripture-chapter":[1351],"oyb_day":[1533],"location":[],"class_list":["post-2752","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-genesis","scripture-chapter-1351","oyb_day-january-7"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/2752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=2752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}